a close incounter...of the furry kind ;)

[winyanstaz]

I was sitting by the window when I heard a slight noise..just a few minutes ago.
I raised myself up and peered out the bottom of the open window...just as a little squirrel was peeking in!
We were eyeball to eyeball and this is the first time I ever knew that squirrels could look so surprised :P bwhahahaaa..
I almost fell out my chair laughing so I thought I would share :)
I bet he doesnt come in the room anymore for a while :P hahaa I know it has been him coming in and stealing bits of feathers and strings from my craft room :) and this morning..he was busted :P rofl.

[OneGrassRoot]

1. That's the chuckle I needed.....

How adorable -- I can just picture it!

[MorningGlow]

2. Cute!!!

I love squirrels. My mom says they're just rats with fuzzy tails, but I think they're adorable. I still remember years ago when we watched a squirrel try his darndest to get at a birdfeeder full of sunflower seeds. He was clutching a nearby branch with his back feet and trying to swing like a trapeze artist. Epic fail--thud. It was hilarious! (He wasn't hurt.)

We have a resident rodent in our kitchen right now--apparently came in with the cold weather. I know our mouser SHOULD get it, but I kind of don't want her to, if you know what I mean. I haven't seen it, but judging from the size of the poo (tiny and sparse), it's probably an eensy weensie field mouse, and I love those guys--big round ears and all.

[JanusAscending]

4. I used to hate squirrels!

I had a constant battle with them when I lived in New Haven. As fast as I planted my spring bulbs, they would dig them up and eat them! Since I've been where I live now, I haven't seen one squirrel for five years. I've seen a few chipmunks and other "critters" but no squirrels??? Woods and water all around me. I wonder if the abundance of eagles and hawks in the nearby aerie's have anything to do with it?? Oh... check your PM's

[Cleita]

9. I make little cages of chicken wire to surround my bulbs with to keep the

gophers from eating them. I think it would work for squirrels too. They can't chew through the chicken wire and give up. I use chicken wire baskets for just about everything I plant to keep them from being eaten. Otherwise I would have no garden.

[rumpel]

3. caught in the act, how cute

:)

[I Have A Dream]

5. That's so cute! The squirrels around here wouldn't be deterred by that...

encounter. :) I had a bird feeder which they very quickly emptied every time I filled it. (I wouldn't mind them eating it along with the birds, but they went through it 20 times faster than the birds would have, so there was no food for the birds; within an hour of my filling it, it would be emptied.) It got to the point where I started to squirt them with a high powered squirt gun. They quickly figured out how far the gun could squirt, so they'd go just a bit further than that and then turn around and just look at me. Almost taunting me. Finally, I just took down the feeder.

The really weird thing is that I almost never saw squirrels around my home until I put the bird feeder up. Now that I no longer have it up, again, I never see them.

Thanks for sharing this with us, winyanstaz. Please let us know if he/she comes back. :D

[NJCher]

7. put a slinky around the bird food pole

If you had the kind with a pole, that is. They can't climb the pole and it drives 'em nuts!

I got one of those bird feeders that tosses the squirrel off. It's weight sensitive so if anything the size of squirrel jumps on there, it twists and tosses it (doesn't hurt the squirrel).

Anyway, for the longest time I had two squirrels around and boy were they frustrated with this bird feeder. They tried every way possible to break into it but they couldn't do it.

The first day it was out there, one of them tried about five or six times.

Finally, toward the end of the day (squirrel day, not people day), he hopped up on the window box next to my computer and told me off. He was chattering a mile a minute and was visibly upset.

I had laughed all day long and that was the perfect finale.

Anyway, now the squirrels have disappeared and I have no idea where they went.


Cher

[I Have A Dream]

8. Hi, Cher! My bird feeder doesn't have a pole.

I bought one of the expensive feeders that you described for my mother. It worked for a while and then something went wrong with it less than a year later. We probably could have returned it, but things like that are more work than its worth, at least to me. If she hadn't had problems with hers, I probably would have ultimately bought one for myself.

The image of that little squirrel telling you off cracks me up! :D Thanks for sharing your story.

[omega minimo]

6. LOL

Darling story.

I used to take lunch in a park where I got to know different tree/families of squirrels and could recognize individuals. Not quite THAT close. :spray:

[BuelahWitch]

10. Squirrels are awesome!

The first winter I lived in this apartment I bought some bird seed to partly feed the birds and partly keep my cat entertained so she could watch them from inside. WELL needless to say, the squirrels took over and ate all the sunflower seeds (they left everything else. Not as palatable I guess!) I didn't care, I figured they were hungry too. Come spring I stopped feeding them, figuring they could find food on their own. One of the regulars came right up to the screen door as if to say, "What the hell, lady?" My cat pounced and he ran away, but I thought it was funny that he came over to ask where the food went. :rofl:

[winyanstaz]

11. We have now named our squirrel...

His name is Tarzan :)

[rumpel]

12. bwahaha

:rofl:

perfect!

[Sanity Claws]

13. Close encounter of the feathery kind over here

Early this afternoon, I saw a fluffed up mourning dove sitting on the back of a chair on my deck. Later he hopped over to the railing and stayed there all afternoon. I figured out that it was a fledgling after I saw its mother join it on the railing and try to encourage it to fly. The fledgling flapped its wings but it was not taking off. The mother left after ten minutes or so. Toward evening, the fledgling slowly walked along the railing until it was against the building.
Flying must be scary to a fledgling.

I'll look for it tomorrow morning.